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Read Ebook: Punch or the London Charivari Vol. 109 July 20 1895 by Various Burnand F C Francis Cowley Editor
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After this no one seemed disposed to move, and the High Sheriff declared TOBY, M.P., duly elected. There were loud cries for the Member, who, overcoming natural and usually insuperable diffidence, got on his hind legs.
A LITERARY TURN.
There was a case in the Edinburgh Court of Session the other day, which shows what is thought of authors north of the Tweed--and not by publishers, either. A witness remarked of a "defender" that "he was of a literary turn of mind, and he thought that spoiled him." Many persons have had similar thoughts, but they have generally refrained from uttering them quite so bluntly.
Mistress HATHAWAY rejoiced in a daughter christened ANNE, Whose proceedings she regarded with concern; Quoth she--"That WILLUM SHAKSPEARE as a son-in-law I ban. Why? Because he has a literary turn."
Said W-LS-L-Y, when a recent work he blankly had surveyed-- "To answer this biography I yearn. What an admirable soldier H-ML-Y might, perhaps, have made, If he had not had a literary turn!"
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